Leclerc kept Sebastian Vettel behind at the start but as early as lap 10 the pair were over 10 seconds behind race leader Verstappen.
Hamilton ripped two seconds a lap out of Verstappen; the Red Bull driver was told to turn his power unit up and found another nine-tenths.
As it turned out, there was a chance Hamilton could have passed Verstappen without the extra pit stop.
We’ve had occasional skirmishes between Hamilton and Verstappen before, but he Hungarian Grand Prix served up the first prolonged encounter between the two.

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